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SCRANTON — President Joe Biden returned to his working-class childhood hometown of Scranton on Tuesday to call for higher taxes on the rich and cast Donald Trump as an ou...
April 16, 2024 Pennsylvania News
The April 23 ballot will look similar to the ballot voters saw in the 2020 primary election, as state Rep. Marci Mustello, R-11th, is facing another challenge from Butler...
April 15, 2024 Government
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will announce his latest effort to broaden student loan relief next week for new categories of borrowers, according to three people famil...
April 05, 2024 National News
NEW YORK — The No Labels group said Thursday it will not field a presidential candidate in November after strategists for the bipartisan organization failed to attract a ...
April 04, 2024 Elections
SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico election officials violated public disclosure provisions of the National Voter Registration Act by refusing to provide voter rolls to a conser...
April 02, 2024 Elections
HARRISBURG — A requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots does not run afoul of a civil right...
March 28, 2024 Elections
OAKLAND, Calif. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chose Nicole Shanahan on Tuesday to be his vice presidential pick, adding a wealthy but nationally unknown figure to his independe...
March 26, 2024 National News
WASHINGTON — With just months to go before Pennsylvania plays what's expected to be a pivotal role in the 2024 election, the state's donors have sent mixed signals to the...
March 24, 2024 Elections
WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who has spearheaded House pushback against the Chinese government, said Friday he would resign from the House, le...
March 22, 2024 National News
HARRISBURG — Some of Pennsylvania’s most populous counties are relocating polling places out of synagogues and other Jewish buildings because the Legislature deadlocked l...
March 22, 2024 Pennsylvania News
PITTSBURGH — The United Steelworkers Union has endorsed President Joe Biden, giving him support from another large labor union. The announcement Wednesday by the Pittsbur...
March 20, 2024 Elections
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden clinched the Democratic presidential nomination with a decisive victory in swing-state Georgia on Tuesday, overcoming concerns about h...
March 12, 2024 Elections
DENVER — Republican Rep. Ken Buck said Tuesday that he'll resign next week, narrowing his party's razor-thin House majority and scrambling the already heated GOP primary ...
March 12, 2024 National News
NEW YORK — Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last...
March 06, 2024 National News
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to ban the Republican former pre...
March 04, 2024 National News
The Butler County Bureau of Elections is planning to relocate the polling place for the Middlesex Township 3 precinct from Crossway Community Church on Davis Road to Gosp...
March 01, 2024 Government
HARRISBURG — Law enforcement agencies, civil defense officials and election administrators have begun meeting in Pennsylvania to coordinate how they will identify and fig...
February 29, 2024 Pennsylvania News
A Butler County Common Pleas Court judge on Friday, Feb. 23, dismissed nine challenges filed this week against candidates for the Butler County Republican Committee, sayi...
February 24, 2024 Elections
HARRISBURG — Two more candidates filed paperwork Thursday to appear on Pennsylvania's primary ballots for U.S. Senate as Democratic Sen. Bob Casey runs for a fourth term ...
February 23, 2024 Pennsylvania News
Two Butler County Republican Committee members have challenged nomination petitions filed by nine candidates, including seven fellow committee members, to run in the Apri...
February 22, 2024 Elections
PHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court must decide if Pennsylvania voters need to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots for the...
February 20, 2024 Pennsylvania News
Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democrat...
February 16, 2024 National News
A new policy from the Bureau of Elections was approved by the Butler County Commissioners at a meeting Wednesday, Feb. 14, allowing more freedom in adjusting a mail-in ba...
February 14, 2024 Local News
HARRISBURG — Democrats retained their slim majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday after voters elected a former school board member to represent...
February 13, 2024 Pennsylvania News
WARSAW, Poland — The head of the NATO military alliance warned Sunday that Donald Trump was putting the safety of U.S. troops and their allies at risk after the Republic...
February 12, 2024 National News
CONWAY, S.C. — With two weeks to go before the South Carolina Republican primary, Nikki Haley is challenging Donald Trump on her home turf while the former president is ...
February 12, 2024 Elections
HARRISBURG — The resignation of a Republican lawmaker in the previously deadlocked Pennsylvania House of Representatives has put the balance of power back to Democrats, a...
February 09, 2024 Pennsylvania News
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seems poised to reject attempts to kick former President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot. A definitive ruling for Trump, the leading Repub...
February 08, 2024 National News
LAS VEGAS — Nikki Haley was swamped in Nevada’s symbolic Republican presidential primary as GOP voters resoundingly picked the “none of these candidates” option on the ba...
February 07, 2024 National News
HARRISBURG — The balance of power in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is at stake for the fourth time in a year as voters next week will choose between a Democra...
February 07, 2024 Pennsylvania News
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